Christ

David, the great king, died, but Jesus defeated death itself by rising from the grave.

He is the cornerstone joining the walls and making the building strong. All peoples come together in Christ and grow “into a holy temple in the Lord.”

The Seed was the Messiah the Jewish people had been waiting for! He is the One you have been waiting for as well!

Jesus came to deliver people from their sins. He is the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One.

How about you? Are you still trying to work your way to God? Still trying to be good enough for him? Our only hope depends on what Jesus did for us.

Believers are commanded to explain what it means to trust in Jesus clearly, and believers are commanded to demonstrate what following Jesus looks like in real life. But no one can be coerced or forced into salvation.

Being man and sinless, Jesus was the only one who could die on man’s behalf. There was no other one and no other way. And yet we get just a hint of the pain of the cross in today’s passage.

Jesus rides into our hearts to stay. He is more intent on changing us than our circumstances.

God in the flesh surrendered himself, entering Jerusalem on the back of a donkey. He continued to yield all the way to the cross. The charge of the believer is to follow that example of humble relent.